How to move your website from Wix to WordPress

Have you got a Wix website? Congratulations on signing up to a closed platform that really doesn’t want you to take YOUR data anywhere else. The good news is, if you want to take it to something a little more open and welcoming, WordPress does have a way of doing the hard work for you of getting it out of Wix.

There are other workaround available online, but they mainly involved importing via the RSS feed (which only shows limited content now) or manually copying over your page content.

The bad news – this isn’t built-in functionality. The good news – it’s free and relatively painless to do.

Wix’s own article on exporting their sites is interesting. They talk about how it’s just generating generic HTML5 sites but then says you can’t export it because you can’t run Wix on your own server, because of the “proprietary technology”. It’s an interesting way to mangle “we don’t want you to migrate your data” into a seemingly good reason for not being able to. But, as they say, it’s just HTML output and that can be exported anywhere.

So, how do you do it?

1. Sign up for a free WordPress.com site
2. Once your site is created, head into your admin screen and select the menus Tools -> Import
3. Choose the Wix import option
4. Follow the prompts through and this will bring your Wix site into your WordPress.com one. For more details on this process, please read these instructions.
5. Check everything over and make sure the content is how you’d like it to be
6. If you want to take your resulting content to another provider, inc. a WordPress site hosted elsewhere, you simply need to go into Tools -> Export. Full details can be found here.

And that’s it. Once you have your site out of Wix you can do pretty much whatever you want with it, as WordPress allows you to export it however you want.

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